The scale of the challenge facing the police and security services was disclosed by Whitehall sources after criticism that multiple opportunities to stop the Manchester bomber had been missed.

About 3,000 people from the total group are judged to pose a threat and are under investigation or active monitoring in 500 operations being run by police and intelligence services. The 20,000 others have featured in previous inquiries and are categorised as posing a “residual risk”.

They could be herded into the Emirates stadium and forced to watch some football team or other, or the authorities could take seriously the horrendous outcome of what happens when warning signs, tip offs, and lack of proper action taken leads to.

_________________My body is in Manchester (sometimes) my mind's all over the place (always)Happy now??